Morgan Packard: Dihedral Product

Generative crowd sourced sculpture with music performances.

Construction begins August 6th. Public invited to participate. See below for list of performances.
Opening Friday, August 12th, 2011. 7-10pm. Generative audio by Morgan Packard. On view until August 14th.

Sol LeWitt knew that artists of many diverse types use simple forms to their own ends. Musician and multimedia artist, Morgan Packard believes that simple rules, when allowed to unfold, create the splendor of the world. In Euclidean geometry the simplest non-curved flat shape is the triangle, and the simplest non-curved three-dimensional shape is four triangles connected by their edges—the tetrahedron. In this crowd-sourced artwork the public is invited to create tetrahedrons from recycled office paper and a few pieces of tape while musicians perform. Under Morgan’s direction the participants will attach the vertices of the tetrahedrons to create a constantly expanding sculpture, filling the gallery with a geometric wonderland intersected by sonic vibrations.

PERFORMANCES:

Saturday, August 6th: Sculpture construction from 2PM to 9PM. Live ambient performance by RJ Valeo from 7PM to 9PM

Sunday, August 7th: Sculpture construction from 2PM to 9PM. Live Ambient set by David Last from 5PM to 7PM

Monday August 8th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Live ultra-subliminal techno by Scott Vizioli

Tuesday August 9th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Live organic electronic sounds by Ezekiel Honig

Wednesday August 10th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Sound design by Brandon Wolcott (recorded)

Thursday August 11th: Sculpture construction and sound from 7PM to 9PM. Sound design by Kenneth Kirschner (recorded)

Friday August 12: Opening for completed work from 7PM to 10PM. Generative audio by Morgan Packard 

ARTIST BIO: 

Morgan Packard is a musician, computer programmer and multimedia artist. As a musician he has travelled and performed in lots of interesting places, with highlights including Montreal’s Mutek festival, Serbia’s Dis-Patch, and Brooklyn’s own Bunker party. With Interval, a company he runs with visualist Joshue Ott, he creates mesmerizing iPhone/iPad software, including Thicket, a pioneering audiovisual featured by Apple in their